| P number: | P527889 |
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| Caption: | Cornstone from Huntley Hill, Brechin, Angus. |
| Description: | A specimen of nodular cornstone from Huntley Hill, half a mile south of Brae of Pert, two and a half miles north-east of Brechin, Angus. A Lower Old Red Sandstone nodular cornstone. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7665. A dark grey-brown compact limestone composed of finely divided turbid calcite, recrystallized along dessication cracks to a coarser grain. The county of Angus has practically no limestones of economic value. South-east of the Highland Boundary Fault the county is composed of rocks of Old Red Sandstone age. In the lower division of this formation there is a well marked bed of cornstone which was formerly worked in a line of quarries near Brechin. Cornstones in the Upper Old Red Sandstone were once quarried at Bodden Point, two miles south of Montrose. Neither cornstones are of economic significance today. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 253.76 KB; 1000 x 665 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 176 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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